WhOA… striked again. Went to the music store to buy mic stands, and tried the Adler Heinrich D whistle (pear wood I think) they had in the counter. I thought it was very nice sounding, but at $100 was way more than what I was ready to pay for yet another addition to the herd (beside, it was quite overpriced I’d say)…, but then the man said, it’s 50% off… still too much I said,… but if you buy the mic stands and the whistle, today there’s no tax over $100 purchases… (an additional 16% saving on the whole package)… OK I said. Got home, the mic stands didn’t fit my mic’s threads, so I returned to the store and explained I had to return the stands and the whistle since it was part of the package deal… but the man said… no, you can keep the whistle at the actual saving that convinced me to buy it in the first place, which came to $40 including the tax.
So there you go, I now have a new member added to my herd, nice natural wood Adler Heinrich D whistle. It has lots (and I mean lots) of back pressure, but require little breath (you can’t hardly empty you lungs on that one), rich complex sound (chiffy), 0XXXX0 CNat and lots of volume (at least as much if not more than a Susato)…
The music store near our house doesn’t even know what an Irish whistle IS!
Riverman… you dont live that far from Ft Wayne, Im sure they have whistles in one of thier music stores. I myself grew up in Goshen, IN, I am in Sturgis MI right now, Southbend also has Woodwind and Brasswind they have whistles ((normaly they do, right now they only have one… 'cause i bought the other one )) Woodwind usaly has waldens, and feadogs, other random ones as well. Shipshewana has a cool little shop in one of its tourist traps that has clarkes, waldens, susatos, the shop is called Simple Sounds. they are a little bit over priced, but not too bad.
I hope that helps. I will be in the Mishiana aria for another 5 weeks or so. If anybody around southbend knows of some sessions, or concerts etc… it would be nice to not be the only whistler on the block.
But that can be a trap. A friend of mine once told me he never buys anything cheap he wouldn’t pay full price for. I can’t quite go along with that, but I do have a lot of unread books and barely played CDs to testify to its wisdom.
I tried a bunch of those at my music store the other day, and every single whistle was either totally out of tune or sounded quiet, breathy and the 1st octave was nearly impossible to hit.
By the way, go and slap your music dealer. $100!! I’ve to pay 37€ (around $43) here and find that still pricy.
I knew that $100 was way out of range, and it was obvious the store was boosting its prices to make you think you were getting a deal. That’s why even at $50 CDN I wasn’t interested. $35 CDN is what I knew it was worth.
I had tried this whistle six months ago, and couldn’t get anything out of it worth mentionning. It takes a lot of push. Because of that, what may sound to you as out-of-tune is perhaps just “under-blowned”. Once you push it though, it doesn’t sound that bad at all (listen to clip). Like the review said on C&F this should not the only whistle in your stable, but well worth the price for the more experienced player (not that I consider myself experienced, but not a beginner either). I do not recommend this whistle for a beginner or anyone who cherishes the Burkes no back pressure very tolerent design (and I don’t say this in a negative way, Burkes are great whistle). It is just the complete opposite of a Burke (for what I read, I don’t have a Burke). It has perhaps the highest back pressure I ever came accross, and demands quite a bit of breath control (that’s what I like about it, totally unforgiving, hence makes for good practice of breath control).
Note: 37€ is approximately $81 CDN. What I paid is more like 18€ including all taxes.
)) Woodwind usaly has waldens, and feadogs, other random ones as well. Shipshewana has a cool little shop in one of its tourist traps that has clarkes, waldens, susatos, the shop is called Simple Sounds. they are a little bit over priced, but not too bad.
